You’ve gotten your ears pierced when you were very young. Now your friends all want to get their tongues pierced. They include you. After a while, you are convinced and go get one at a local shop.

You go in and are told to sit in one of the empty room at the parlor. A tall man came in. He was handsome, but a little too handsome. Seemed to have a way with ladies. He put on gloves.

“Tongue piercing, eh? Don’t look like the kind of person to get it.” He sat on a small stool in front of you.